With more articles being published today than ever before, standing out in the crowd remains to be a struggle many businesses face. This means that as creators, you'll need to be adaptive and strategic in the way you approach marketing your content in 2019.

Does generating backlinks seem like an unattainable goal? Have you been spending hours trying to get strong authoritative sites to link back to your site, but to no avail? If this is the case, you are not alone. Backlink generation is among the leading issues plaguing companies and content creators alike... but it doesn't have to be. Here are 10 tried and true tactics for generating high-quality links back to your site and/or blog.

In case you missed it, not too long ago, we featured an article that underlined some key findings by a 2018 study carried out by Buzzsumo. In this study, Buzzsumo analyzed how content trends have shifted during 2017, and underlined how these alterations will change the way creators need to change the way they generate and distribute content.

One of the key findings was that the median for backlinks was 0, which means that half of all content posted during 2017 received no backlinks. In this article, we aim to shed some light on what backlinks are, why they are important, and how to begin generating them for your content.